Former Girls' British School is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 March 1978. School.

Former Girls' British School

WRENN ID: upper-porch-hemlock
Grade: II
Local Planning Authority: Wiltshire
Country: England
Date first listed: 31 March 1978
Type: School
Source: Historic England listing

Description

WARMINSTER NORTH ROW 1. 5411 (East Side) Former Girls' British School ST 8745 SW 6/267

II GV

Originally the "Old Meeting". Built 1704, altered 1872 into girls school. An excellent plain building close in style to Lord Weymouth's School in Church Street (qv). 2 storeys, red brick on coursed and squared rubble base. Stone quoins and dressings to 2 light stone mullion windows. M-section hipped old tile roof with sprocket eaves. Band over ground floor. 5 windows on 1st floor, 4 on ground floor with brick flat arches. Projecting central gabled porch (circa 1872) with moulded footstones to coped verge and moulded entrance with 4 centred arch. 2 large cross stone mullions and transom windows to east and a blocked doorway. Roof supported by 2 polygonal timber columns of massive scantling. Dwarf wall in front with spearhead railings (circa 1872) the standards having 4 quills to caps.

Listing NGR: ST8743845161

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